Thank You for Smoking
Through that atmosphere where all call for giving up smoking, according to its harmful and bad effects on people's health, Nike Naylor, a young smart man who works for the biggest tobacco factory, as he struggles against convincing people with smoking and at the same time, he has to deal with bring a good figure for his son.
9 January 1955, Detroit, Michigan, USA
18 June 1965, Huntsville, Alabama, USA
26 January 1993, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
18 December 1993, San Diego, California, USA
4 September 1970, Nashville, Tennessee, USA
12 March 1968, Cupertino, California, USA
25 June 1945, Managua, Nicaragua
17 December 1992
27 January 1970, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
29 June 1967, Houston, Texas, USA
November 07, 2012
Curiously, the film's key drawback --its impassive resolution feels a little too slick -- is arguably indicative of the theme: no matter how much we may think we're peeling back the layers, all we arrive at is another façade.
August 30, 2009
The joke fizzles
May 12, 2006
Even the good lines here last a self-congratulatory beat too long.
August 10, 2007
played so amiably that you barely notice how prickly its barbs are until they have dug right in.
March 31, 2006
Reitman, still in his 20s, knows something that many more seasoned directors never figure out: how to make audiences laugh along with a film that's laughing at itself.
June 24, 2006
Aiming at all targets and hitting none of them, the movie is as harmless and inconsequential as a candy cigarette.
March 31, 2006
Literate and smirky in its assault on liars and fools across the map.
April 07, 2006
Deliciously nasty, naughty satire.
September 19, 2009
Thank You For Smoking gets much of its juice from a superb Aaron Eckhart as Nick Naylor.
July 17, 2007
Leave your preconceptions at the door, prepare for your favourite causes to be skewered, and enjoy. This is one fun movie.
October 07, 2006
The picture is obviously a satire, but it has no sharpness, no sense of daring.
February 28, 2008
Thank You For Smoking is an elegant satire, sneaky and subtle...
